Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 331
The Birs Nimroud, or Tower of Babel of early Travellers. early Christian travellers, as well as some of more recentdate, have not hesitated to recognise in them proofs of thatdivine vengeance, which, according to tradition, arrested byfire from heaven the impious attempt of the first descendantsof…
